Butterfield (William) Architectural and design drawings, 1838-1896

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Summary

Title:

William Butterfield architectural and design drawings

Dates:

1838-1896

Creators:

Butterfield, William, 1814-1900

Abstract:

British architect. Butterfield's drawings and estimates partially document 25 architectural projects (churches, schools, and hospitals), and 67 drawings are designs for ecclesiastical objects. The collection represents the types of commissions Butterfield received and illustrates his promotion of the Gothic Revival style.

Extent:

290 items

Language:

French

Preferred citation:

William Butterfield architectural and design drawings, 1814-1900, Library, The Getty Research Institute, Accession no. 850998.

http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa850998

Background

Scope and content:

A broadly representative selection of drawings for building and manufacture of designs, representing the various types of commissions Butterfield received and illustrating his work in promoting Gothic Revival. Also included are building estimates as well as record drawings (measured drawings) of buildings not designed by Butterfield.

Building designs include drawings for 25 projects: churches and chapels, schools and hospitals. 58 plans, elevations, sections, and details (altars, screens, choir stalls, pavement patterns, pulpits, fonts, etc.) document the following church and chapel buildings: Severn-Stoke Church, 1838-1839; All Saints, Babbacombe, Devon, 1865-1874 (3); All Saints, Hastings, 1888-1889 (1); Ault Hucknall, Derbyshire, 1885-1888 (1); Balliol College Chapel, Oxford, ca. 1856 (1); Caterham Barracks Chapel, 1885-1887 (3); Christ Church, Albany St., London, 1883-1884 (2); Dalton, Yorkshire, 1868 (1); Fulham Palace Chapel, ca. 1864-1867; St. Andrew's, Rugby, ca. 1877 (4); St. Alban's, Baldwins Gardens, ca. 1855 (1); St. Augustine's, Bournemouth, 1891-1892 (1); St. Augustine's, South Kensington, London, ca. 1870 (5); St. Bartholomew Hyde, Winchester, 1865 (1); St. Bee's, Cumberland, 1886 (1); St. Clement's, Hastings, 1872-1876 (1); St. Denis, East Hatley, Cambridgeshire, ca. 1874 (8); St. Mary Magdalene, Enfield, 1881-1883 (3); St. Mary's Warwick, 1886 (1); St. Michael's, Winchester, 1879-1882 (1); Sedgebarrow, Worcestershire, 1867-1868 (1); Shaw, Berkshire, 1875-1878 (1); Tottenham All Hallows Church, 1875 (1); Winchester College, Large Chapel (1); also unidentified designs, including a design for a sculpture on the theme of the Passion, 1877. 120 drawings document designs for St. Michael's Hospital, Axbridge, Somerset (1878-1882) and Rugby School (1867-1885).

Ecclesiastical objects designed by Butterfield are documented with drawings of furnishings and ritual objects. Butterfield's designs for church plate were adapted for use internationally, representative examples having been published by the Ecclesiological Society (formerly the Cambridge Camden Society) between 1847 and 1856. Many have materials and sizes indicated. The types represented: alms dish (3); altar frontal (1); candlestick (9); cathedra (1); chalice, paten and alms dish (3); communion service (1); cruet (1); desk (3); ewer (1); flagon (5); hinge (1); lectern (11); lighting fixture (16); litany stool (1); memorial (6); vase (4).

Estimates include 10 letters about manufacture of objects and work with contractors. A few drawings in other series include attached estimates.

Memorials include six identified designs and a memorial in Romsey Abbey for an unidentified person.

Record drawings, not by Butterfield, document Great Mongeham Church, Kent (14 drawings) and St. John the Baptist, Shottesbrooke, Berkshire (17 items), prepared for the 1844 publication on the building by the Oxford Architectural Society as an example of the English Gothic style. Also, one original print after a drawing by Butterfield of the Shottesbrooke Church.

Biographical / historical:

William Butterfield (1814-1900) was a British architect known for the Gothic revival style he championed. He studied with E. L. Blackburne and set up his own practice in 1840. A member of the Cambridge Camden Society, later the Ecclesiastical Society, he contributed designs to their journal The Ecclesiologist. Most of his work was for church designs, apart from that for schools and colleges (Rugby School and Keble College Oxford), and the Winchester County Hospital. Perhaps his best-known building is the All Saints Church, Margaret Street, London (1849-1859). The Royal Institute of British Architects awarded the Gold Medal to Butterfield in 1884.

Acquisition information:

Acquired in 1985.

Processing information:

Processed by Alan Tomlinson.

Arrangement:

Arranged in five series: Series I. Building designs; Series II. Ecclesiastical objects; Series III. Estimates; Series IV. Memorials; Series V. Record drawings.

Physical location:

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Indexed terms

Subjects:: Schools -- Designs and plans.
Church buildings
Church architecture -- Designs and plans
Hospital buildings -- Designs and plans.
Church decoration and ornament
Architecture, Medieval -- Great Britain.
Architecture—Great Britain—19th century
Architectural drawings (visual works)
Design drawings
Names:: Rugby School

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:: Alan Tomlinson and J. Gibbs.
Date Encoded:: This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2023-07-20 09:23:27 -0700 .

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